UPDATE: Cutest Bear Cub On Earth Bit Some Students At Washington U And Gets To LIVE
UPDATE: Boo Boo gets to live. Fuck yeah.
I bring saddening news out of St. Louis via the ever-breaking news source, Twitter.
Washington University administrators brought a leashed bear cub to campus for students to interact with in order to uplift their spirits for final exams. The Bear is the Washington University mascot. This particular bear cub’s name is Boo Boo. As you can see above, Boo Boo is cute as shit. In my opinion, he’s the cutest bear cub on the planet.
Boo Boo got a little excited to be around the Wash U students and nipped some of them with his little bear cub teeth, because, you know, he’s a baby bear. Baby bears, by the way, naturally mature to be blood-thirsty killing machines in the wild. It’s what they do. They depend on hunting for survival. They’re bears.
Because it was unknown whether Boo Boo had rabies–something that seems unimaginable since he was chosen to interact with real human beings–the students who were bitten may have to see a physician to receive their rabies vaccinations.
Oh yeah, and they decided to kill poor Boo Boo.
Shame on @WUSTL for exploiting a bear for entertainment & leading to euthanization bc he bit students. Help @peta pic.twitter.com/ZK1hMZLheU
— Madeleine L Parker (@madeleineliesel) May 2, 2014
1. Wash. U. brings bear cub to campus for student entertainment.
2. Student gets bitten by said bear cub.
3. Bear cub is killed.
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— ANDY (@andykoh_) May 1, 2014
Aight Wash U is deeefinitely regretting that bear right now
— SFein (@SUN_burned) May 1, 2014
SMH @ wash u for bringing a bear cub to campus and now everyone who was "nipped" is at risk for rabies
— DEUCE (@anniepudvah) April 30, 2014
Apparently, an animal can’t be tested for rabies unless it is dead–something about having to cut its head off to test it. I’m sad for poor Boo Boo. Thoughts go out to Boo Boo’s bear family.
Man, someone really screwed this thing up.
Fucking weeaboos.
11 years ago at 8:19 amHe will make a nice hat.
11 years ago at 9:46 amI think this is related to the bear killed on NC’s campus
11 years ago at 9:53 amThis story is unBEARable
11 years ago at 10:28 amThis is one of the few times I’d support an animal rights group. Also, the owner of those legs in the background of the picture should be euthanized too.
11 years ago at 10:44 amThat’s down right f’d up someone break that sucker out and do some full on Rise of the Planet of the Bears business lmao
11 years ago at 11:03 amThis is depressing as fuck, fuck you for putting this on the front page.
11 years ago at 12:16 pmThe only time Ive ever engaged in any activism was to call up the lady in charge of euthanization (someone found her number and posted it on Facebook) to protest killing the bear. Even the people at risk for rabies were mad they were killing it. It was raised in captivity, there’s a small chance it could have rabies. This is just the school covering their ass.
11 years ago at 2:03 pmBitch better have my honey
11 years ago at 4:27 pmBREAKING: WashU says they will not be killing to bear, according to the official WUSTL twitter account.
11 years ago at 5:20 pm